Drill core from borehole taken in 1981 from the Nördlinger Ries. (IMAGE)

University of Göttingen

Drill core from borehole taken in 1981 from the Nördlinger Ries.

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Drill core from borehole taken in 1981 from the Nördlinger Ries. There are distinctive layers of light-coloured dolomite between fine-layered dark sediments of the former crater lake.

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Gernot Arp, Göttingen University

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